Two More Years

My roommate and good friend suggested that I start a blog, which he would follow for two years so at the very least I know I have him. He made a point that people may find some of my ramblings or thoughts enjoyable so here is hoping that this turns out to be true. While he said that he would follow me for this two year period I am very suspicious of this, not because of a lack of commitment on his part but because it seems more and more likely that there is doom around the corner. Whether it’s a total economic collapse, a super flu or, God forbid, the global warming; we and our way of life are pretty much screwed. 

Now I do sincerely hope that I am wrong, I would love to wake up one day and go “there is no doom on the horizon” but if history shows us anything it’s that there always is doom on the horizon. Right now it’s the collapse of the global (well first the American and then the global) economy, before that it was terrorists who wanted to kill all the freedom loving people (terrorists who use terror for its own end none of the wishy washy “oh they are freedom fighters” since they do exist and use terror as a means to an end rather than an end in its own right), before the terrorist there was the comforting threat of mutually assured destruction from the red menace, before that there were the Nazis, before the Nazis there was the great depression and the dust bowl, before that there was a massive flu epidemic, the war to end all wars (I don’t think it accomplished that goal), global imperialism (which is doom on the horizon for those getting imperialized and in the long run for those who were doing the imperializing since it created strife between the two groups), before global imperialism there was well imperialism goes back a ways so you’re at a point where the average life expectancy is quite low so dyeing young because of a slew of random things is another type of doom on the horizon. Run-on sentences aside, there has been and will most likely always be one doom or another for us to look forward to.

On the other side of that coin there is the revelation that while there has been and may always be doom ahead of us we have always moved past it. We have cured disease, stopped the Nazis and averted nuclear war. This may very well indicate that we have the ability to move past our perceived doom through our determination. This may indicate that we may one day move to a time where we can wake up and think to ourselves “there is no doom on the horizon” which would be pretty cool.